Draft procedure

[Kings Gm]

Just wondering how the draft proceeds. Is their a max time limit for each pick? Is only the 1st round being done today? The rules are not that clear. With so many turn overs in GM's each year maybe more clarification should be laid out in the rules on how it works.

[Blackhawks GM]

Take a look at the official rules page:

NHL Entry Level Draft:

We conduct a 3 round Entry Level Draft every pre-season after the NHL Entry Draft. This draft is for NHL Rookies that were eligible for the most recent NHL draft (including undrafted players). Players that were eligible for a previous year's NHL draft and went undrafted (but are still technically NHL Rookies), are considered free agents and are no longer eligible to be drafted.

Draft order for non-playoff teams will be in the reverse order of the final regular season fantasy hockey standings. Playoff teams will draft in the reverse order of their playoff results (teams eliminated the same week will follow the same tiebreaker rules based on their regular season finish).

Draft Order Tiebreaker Rules...
1. Overall Record
2. Head-to-Head Record (2 teams only)
3. Overall Points
4. Points Against

Teams will be OTC (On The Clock) starting from the exact time the previous selection was made or skipped. The time to make a selection or trade the draft pick will be 24 hours in round 1, 12 hours in round 2, and 8 hours in round 3.

All NHL rookies not drafted during our rookie draft become Free Agents 24 hours after the conclusion of our draft.


Skipped Draft Picks:
If a team misses their pick, they will be skipped and the next team will be "on the clock". Skipped teams may pick anytime and will not affect the current clock. If a team has a draft pick skipped, then any of their subsequent draft picks will be immediately skipped until the GM signs on again.

A team will not be skipped more than two selections during the first 2 rounds. The draft will be paused and the TAB will make the pick based on that team's needs. This ensures no franchise gets truly hurt by an owner that that is unavailable. After the 2nd round, the TAB will no longer make selections for skipped picks (except for available teams without GMS). Teams with skipped picks may still pick anytime up until 24 hours after the final pick of the draft. At that time all skipped picks will be forfeited.

Draft Pick Salaries (pick position on the draft board regardless of any skipped picks):
Round 1
1 - $3,000,000
2 - $2,850,000
3 - $2,708,000
4 - $2,572,000
5 - $2,444,000
6 - $2,321,000
7 - $2,205,000
8 - $2,095,000
9 - $1,990,000
10 - $1,891,000
11 - $1,796,000
12 - $1,706,000
13 - $1,621,000
14 - $1,540,000
15 - $1,463,000
16 - $1,390,000
17 - $1,320,000
18 - $1,254,000
19 - $1,192,000
20 - $1,168,000
21 - $1,144,000
22 - $1,122,000
23 - $1,099,000
24 - $1,077,000
25 - $1,056,000
26 - $1,034,000
27 - $1,014,000
28 - $994,000
29 - $974,000
30 - $954,000


Round 2
31 (2.1) - $935,000
32 (2.2) - $916,000
33 (2.3) - $898,000
34 (2.4) - $880,000
35 (2.5) - $863,000
36 (2.6) - $845,000
37 (2.7) - $828,000
38 (2.8) - $812,000
39 (2.9) - $796,000
40 (2.10) - $780,000
41 (2.11) - $764,000
42 (2.12) - $749,000
43 (2.13) - $734,000
44 (2.14) - $719,000
45 (2.15) - $705,000
46 (2.16) - $691,000
47 (2.17) - $677,000
48 (2.18) - $663,000
49 (2.19) - $650,000
50 (2.20) - $637,000
51 (2.21) - $624,000
52 (2.22) - $612,000
53 (2.23) - $600,000
54 (2.24) - $588,000
55 (2.25) - $576,000
56 (2.26) - $564,000
57 (2.27) - $553,000
58 (2.28) - $542,000
59 (2.29) - $531,000
60 (2.30) - $525,000


All others - $525,000

Contract Length of Drafted Rookies:
All Draft picks will be signed to 3 year entry deals, at the end they will be RFA's.

Read more: realgm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=r1&action=display&thread=16#ixzz2ZhINovHy

[Kings Gm]

Teams will be OTC (On The Clock) starting from the exact time the previous selection was made or skipped. The time to make a selection or trade the draft pick will be 24 hours in round 1, 12 hours in round 2, and 8 hours in round 3.

I must have missed that when going through the rules earlier. Thank you